Keyword: 4thamendmenthttp://www.freerepublic.com/tag/4thamendment/
en-usTue, 6 Dec 2016 19:56:55 GMTFocus Forum15California Supreme Court limits police searcheshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502058/posts
Police officers may only conduct a search following a traffic stop if they believe there is probable cause a crime was committed, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in a child pornography case involving a bicyclist pulled over for rolling through a stop sign. Torrance police stopped bicyclist Paul Macabeo in 2012 after following him a short distance with their patrol car&#x27;s headlights off. They acknowledged he was not riding erratically and did not try to flee. Macabeo was arrested after the officers searched his phone and said they found photos of underage girls. The state&#x27;s highest court said that...89.3 KPCChttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502058/posts#commentTue, 6 Dec 2016 19:56:55 GMTComey: FBI wants &#x27;adult conversation&#x27; on device encryptionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3464317/posts
FBI Director James Comey is again warning about the bureau&#x92;s inability to access digital devices because of encryption. In a speech Tuesday, Comey said default encryption built into smartphones is &#x93;making more and more of the room that we are charged to investigate dark.&#x94; He said the FBI is working to collect information on the issue so that &#x93;next year we can have an adult conversation in this country.&#x94; &#x85;Associated Presshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3464317/posts#commentTue, 30 Aug 2016 14:44:57 GMTUnreasonable Searches Are Unconstitutional -- and Commonhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3459464/posts
If there is anything on which Americans across the political spectrum agree, it is the inviolability of the Constitution. It is our national scripture, invoked by all and rejected by none. Conservatives attending the first tea party rallies in 2009 often waved copies of the document. The most memorable moment of the recent Democratic National Convention was when the father of a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq demanded of Donald Trump, &#x22;Have you even read the United States Constitution?&#x22; But one portion of our national charter has eroded to the point of invisibility: the Fourth Amendment. It says,...Townhall.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3459464/posts#commentSun, 14 Aug 2016 17:11:25 GMTAfter Orlando, Senate bill seeks to allow FBI web searches without court orderhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3442765/posts
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to allow the FBI to access a person&#x92;s Internet browsing history, email account data and other electronic communications without a court order in terrorism and spy cases. The measure from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) would have also extended the government&#x92;s authority to conduct surveillance over potential &#x93;lone wolf&#x94; attackers. [ ] A majority of the Senate backed the proposal in a 58 to 38 vote, but it needed 60 votes to advance. [ ] The measure inspired a fierce backlash...washingtonpost.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3442765/posts#commentThu, 23 Jun 2016 01:05:47 GMTThey&#x92;re Coming For Your Homehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433075/posts
They&#xC2;&#x92;re coming for your home. Right now. I suggest you save it. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Except, this isn&#xC2;&#x92;t The Matrix. You&#xC2;&#x92;re no actor, like Keanu Reeves, playing a distraught programmer-hacker named &#xC2;&#x93;Neo.&#xC2;&#x94; Nor am I an actor, like Laurence Fishburne, playing your guide &#xC2;&#x93;Morpheus.&#xC2;&#x94; This is real life, baby. Your home or apartment&#xE2;&#x80;&#x94;and the neighborhood in which you live&#xE2;&#x80;&#x94;is under siege. &#xC2;&#x93;Agents&#xC2;&#x94;&#xE2;&#x80;&#x94;sans black glasses and black business suits&#xE2;&#x80;&#x94;who work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have written a new regulation called &#xC2;&#x93;Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing&#xC2;&#x94; (AFFH) that...Townhall.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433075/posts#commentMon, 23 May 2016 12:03:44 GMTObama calls on Sen. Paul to drop objections to tax treatieshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3428342/posts
President Barack Obama on Friday called on Sen. Rand Paul to drop his &#x93;quirky&#x94; objections to pending international tax treaties so they can move forward in Congress. Obama said the treaties will help U.S. authorities investigate and crack down on offshore tax evasion. Paul has argued that they would infringe on Americans&#x92; constitutional right to privacy because their tax data and personal financial information would be shared with other countries. Treaties cannot go into force unless ratified by the Senate, and the objection of any one senator halts action on legislative business pending in that house of Congress, as Paul...Associated Presshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3428342/posts#commentSat, 7 May 2016 02:52:50 GMTA New York judge just ruled that the FBI can&#x27;t force Apple to unlock iPhoneshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3403498/posts
A federal judge in Brooklyn has ruled that the government can&#x27;t force Apple to help break an iPhone&#x27;s passcode security. No, it&#x27;s not the San Bernardino shooting case, a similar situation where the FBI is seeking to compel Apple to provide custom software to help it access data on a criminal&#x27;s iPhone...Business Insiderhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3403498/posts#commentMon, 29 Feb 2016 23:48:54 GMTTrump asks voters to boycott Apple: &#x27;I think that&#x27;s a great idea&#x27;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3399297/posts
Donald Trump on Friday urged a roomful of voters to boycott the tech giant Apple so long as its chief executive, Tim Cook, refuses to comply with a court order to assist the FBI with hacking into the cell phone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. &#x22;First of all Apple better give the security for that phone,&#x22; the Republican presidential hopeful said during a campaign rally in Pawleys Island, S.C. &#x22;What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time they give that security number. How do you like that?&#x22; &#x22;I just thought of it,&#x22; Trump noted,...Washington Examinerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3399297/posts#commentFri, 19 Feb 2016 20:56:20 GMTApple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Beforehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3398556/posts
A 2015 court case shows that the tech giant has been willing to play ball with the government before&#xE2;&#x80;&#x94;and is only stopping now because it might &#xE2;&#x80;&#x98;tarnish the Apple brand.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; Apple CEO Tim Cook declared on Wednesday that his company wouldn&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;t comply with a government search warrant to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers, a significant escalation in a long-running debate between technology companies and the government over access to people&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s electronically-stored private information. But in a similar case in New York last year, Apple acknowledged that it could extract such data if it wanted...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3398556/posts#commentThu, 18 Feb 2016 05:04:36 GMT[Vanity] Apple vs FBihttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3398502/posts
An Open Memo To Lou Dobbs As CEO, Tim Cooks obligation is to execute the corporate mission. Briefly stated, a corporation must deliver product to customers and return on investment to shareholders. It is not his job to make the nation secure from geo-political terrorism. Your suggestion that Mr. Cook will be culpable when another attack occurs was a stinking cheap shot. Obama has the job of making us secure and is failing us. Today on the sister network Fox News Channel, Obama was heard calling for improved cyber security. Do you see an irony? By resisting encroachment by the...selfhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3398502/posts#commentThu, 18 Feb 2016 02:13:36 GMTApple CEO Cook condemns iPhone &#x27;backdoor&#x27; order; calls it &#x27;chilling,&#x27; &#x27;dangerous&#x27;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3398144/posts
LOS ANGELES Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday said a court order demanding the company create a &#x22;backdoor&#x22; into the cellphone data of the San Bernardino, Calif., attackers was &#x22;chilling&#x22; and &#x22;dangerous.&#x22; In a letter to customers, Cook expressed his opposition to the court order. &#x22;The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand,&#x22; Cook wrote. &#x22;Compromising the security of our personal information can ultimately put our personal safety at risk. That...upi.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3398144/posts#commentWed, 17 Feb 2016 12:20:38 GMTApple Turns Down FBI Demand For Encryption Key Made Under 1789 Law, Defends 4th Amendmenthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3398255/posts
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc. turned down the FBI&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s demand using a 1789 federal ordinance to build a &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;backdoor&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; into iPhones allowing law enforcement to defeat encryption as he explained in a &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Customer Letter&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; this morning posted to the company&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s website. Apple&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s letter kicks off the highest profile defense of the U.S. Constitution&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s Fourth Amendment we are likely to see in our lifetimeshttps://photographyisnotacrime.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3398255/posts#commentWed, 17 Feb 2016 16:40:52 GMTTed Cruz&#x27;s Closest Counselors Are Neoconshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3391179/posts
There&#x27;s a lot about Ted Cruz that should worry constitutionalists considering voting for the senator in the presidential election of 2016.Recently, Infogram published brief but illuminating biographies of several of Cruz&#x27;s key foreign policy advisors. The information disclosed in these revelations could trouble many constitutionalists otherwise keen on the senator and who rely on him to restore the rule of law to the White House.The first person highlighted in the article is the chairman of Cruz&#x27;s foreign policy team, Chad Sweet.Sweet&#x27;s professional and political background betrays Cruz&#x27;s claims of being someone who promises &#x22;not to continue going in the same...The New Americanhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3391179/posts#commentMon, 1 Feb 2016 01:26:31 GMTAP-NORC Poll: Online surveillance is OK for most (barf alert)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378299/posts
A majority of Americans say they support warrantless government surveillance of the Internet communications of U.S. citizens, according to a new poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It&#x27;s at least somewhat important for the government to sacrifice freedoms to ensure safety, most say in the survey. ...Associated Presshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3378299/posts#commentThu, 31 Dec 2015 08:51:58 GMTFederal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable causehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3377878/posts
In April 2012, a Kansas SWAT team raided the home of Robert and Addie Harte, their 7-year-old daughter and their 13-year-old son. The couple, both former CIA analysts, awoke to pounding at the door. When Robert Harte answered, SWAT agents flooded the home. He was told to lie on the floor. When Addie Harte came out to see what was going on, she saw her husband on his stomach as SWAT cop stood over him with a gun.Washington Posthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3377878/posts#commentWed, 30 Dec 2015 02:06:30 GMTTSA Chief: &#x27;We&#x27;re on the Cusp of a Very Different Looking Checkpoint Experience&#x27;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357001/posts
(CNSNews.com) - Coming soon, a new checkpoint experience for airline passengers. Testifying before a House Oversight subcommittee on Tuesday, Peter Neffenger, the new head of the Transportation Security Agency, said he envisions &#x22;a day where the checkpoint looks very different from what it does today. With the exception of the full-body scanners, &#x22;We&#x27;re still largely dealing with ...the same kind of checkpoint we&#x27;ve had for the past decade or more. And I think we&#x27;re on the cusp of a very different looking checkpoint experience in the next five years.&#x22;CNSNews.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357001/posts#commentFri, 6 Nov 2015 04:52:21 GMT&#x93;I&#x92;ll put them in camps&#x94;: Rand Paul mocks GOP field for hardline rhetoric towards illegalshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3331402/posts
A nice catch by Sam Stein of HuffPo from Rand&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s interview with Boston Herald Radio. Skip to around 11:00 for the key bit.I &#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6; did not expect a competition between Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul over who could conjure up a better Nazi allusion for Republicans. Or rather, I didn&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;t expect it until the election turned to foreign policy. &#xC2;&#x93;There have been a lot of dumb ideas put out,&#xC2;&#x94; Paul said, speaking with Boston Herald Radio. &#xC2;&#x93;One that the Mexicans will pay for a wall, [which] was probably the dumbest of dumb ideas. But putting a wall up between...Hotairhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3331402/posts#commentMon, 31 Aug 2015 22:19:50 GMTStingRay surveillance prompts Baltimore attorneys to review nearly 2,000 caseshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3330839/posts
Attorneys in Baltimore are reviewing hundreds of convictions after an investigation revealed that police there have secretly used cell phone surveillance tools in nearly 2,000 criminal cases. Following a report in USA Today that exposed the extent of the Baltimore Police Department&#x92;s use of cell-tracking technology to locate suspects sought in connection with low-level crimes, lawyers in the city&#x92;s public defender office now tell the paper they plan to ask the court to toss out &#x93;a large number&#x94; of convictions.The Washington Timeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3330839/posts#commentSun, 30 Aug 2015 03:58:17 GMTWhite Bear Lake stabbing victim was in key U.S. Supreme Court case
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On a summer&#x27;s day in 1987, Minneapolis police surrounded a woman&#x27;s home in the northeast corner of the city and heard their suspect&#x27;s voice inside. &#x22;Tell them I left,&#x22; said Robert Darren Olson. The officers forced their way in. An Amoco gas station attendant had been shot dead on University Avenue the day before, and one of the suspects, the money and the murder weapon were already in custody. Police had been tipped off that their second suspect, the getaway driver, spent his nights at the duplex. They found Olson hiding in the closet. He was later convicted of aggravated...Pioneer Presshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3323745/posts#commentWed, 12 Aug 2015 12:36:12 GMTIs the 4th Amendment Dead in Cyberspace?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3322438/posts
Over a year ago former director of both the NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden, flat out admitted, &#x22;we kill people based on metadata.&#x22; He quickly distinguished between the metadata about which the debate was focused, telephone records, and other forms of surveillance metadata upon which covert actions are taken. Not surprised about the actions, I confess I was taken aback when I considered the implications that this disclosure has on Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in cyberspace. Ever since the USA-Patriot Act in 2001, I have been harping on complications of the Fourth Amendment between content and metadata in data networking. For...Inside Higher Edhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3322438/posts#commentSun, 9 Aug 2015 06:58:54 GMTFeds Seize Medical Records on &#x27;Fishing Expedition&#x27; Investigations with No Subpoena from a Judgehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315436/posts
While focusing their resources and political energy on the NSA&#x92;s mass collection of metadata, privacy advocates have neglected the most dangerous institutionalized violations of the Fourth Amendment: administrative subpoenas. Now a United States District Court judge in Texas has ruled for the Drug Enforcement Agency that an administrative subpoena may be used to search medical records. It was inevitable, given the march towards illegally nullifying the Fourth Amendment through use of these judge-less bureaucrat warrants authorized by Congress. Administrative subpoenas are issued unilaterally by government agencies -- meaning without approval by neutral judges -- and without probable cause stated under...American Thinkerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3315436/posts#commentThu, 23 Jul 2015 01:35:10 GMTLicense plates being rapidly scanned in Walmart parking lotby incognito surveillance vehicle?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3299961/posts
Suspicious activity noted ahead of #JadeHelm15 CHINO HILLS, Calif. (INTELLIHUB) &#x97; A reader, John Temblador, retired California State Peace Officer, CDC, witnessed a vehicle dashing through a Walmart parking lot on June 4. &#x93;at a high rate of speed&#x94;, bearing no &#x93;E&#x94; plate.Temblador thinks that the vehicle may have been conducting a &#x93;covert scan&#x94; of some type.The vehicle appears to be equipped with license plate scanning technology or code catcher technology, aimed both forward and aft to either side of the vehicle to catch every plate in the parking lot.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3299961/posts#commentSat, 13 Jun 2015 23:32:44 GMTWisconsin&#x27;s Shame, Govt.Sponsored Home Invasions.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298444/posts
&#x91;They came with a battering ram.&#x94; Cindy Archer, one of the lead architects of Wisconsin&#x92;s Act 10 &#x97; also called the &#x93;Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill,&#x94; it limited public-employee benefits and altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions &#x97; was jolted awake by yelling, loud pounding at the door, and her dogs&#x92; frantic barking. The entire house &#x97; the windows and walls &#x97; was shaking. She looked outside to see up to a dozen police officers, yelling to open the door. They were carrying a battering ram. She wasn&#x92;t dressed, but she started to run toward the door, her body in full...National Reviewhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3298444/posts#commentTue, 9 Jun 2015 15:05:55 GMTInvestigation: Undercover agents snuck fake explosives, banned weapons past TSAhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3295737/posts
Undercover agents were able to sneak fake explosives and banned weapons through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, in an investigation that revealed a massive, system-wide security failure at America&#x27;s airports. The findings were part of a DHS inspector general probe. The report is still classified, but Fox News has confirmed the investigation found security failures at dozens of airports. Homeland Security officials confirmed to Fox News that TSA screeners failed 67 out of 70 tests -- or 96 percent -- carried out by special investigators known as &#x22;red teams.&#x22; In one case, an undercover agent with a fake bomb strapped to...Fox Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3295737/posts#commentMon, 1 Jun 2015 20:21:51 GMTDowntown Waco jail to remain closed, cost money without inmate increasehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3294709/posts
McLennan County&#x92;s downtown jail, closed since 2010, continues to cost money in the form of utility expenses, and its future remains uncertain because of a lack of prisoners. Keeping the lights on and occasional maintenance in the facility helps prevent the jail from further dilapidation. Commissioners have spent about $1.2 million in renovations since its closing. County officials hoped the downtown facility could reopen to house overflow from the Jack Harwell Detention Center, but so far there hasn&#x92;t been one. County Judge Scott Felton said LaSalle Corrections, which manages the Jack Harwell center, could potentially house its inmates in the...Waco Tribhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3294709/posts#commentFri, 29 May 2015 14:26:18 GMT